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F. S. FAHNESTOOK.

POTTED PLANT SUPPORT.

No. 385.174. Pa.tented June 26, 188 8.

W TJV'E SES I V EJV'TOR.

NITED STATES EATENT Fries.

POTTED-PLANT SUPPORT.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 385,174, dated June 26, 18188.

Application filed October-2t, 1887. Serial No 253.028. (No model.)

To aZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, FREDRIOK S. FAHNE- STOCK, a citizen of the United States, residing at Cohoes, inthe county of Albany and State of New York, have invented certain new and use ful Improvements in PottedPlant Supports; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the inven tion, such as will enable othersskilled in the art to which itappert-ains to make and use the same.

My invention is a support for potted plants; and it consists in the parts,which will be here inafter described,and pointed outinthcclaiin.

The object of the invention is to provide a support for potted plants, so that the plants may be placed in a window or other desired position, and to prevent the water from dripping on anything liable to be soiled, and also to permit the waste water to be drawn off and used again.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is aside elevation of my invention. Fig. 2 is a like elevation with the support and part of the bracket in section, and Fig. 3 is a perspective view of the support and a fragment of the bracket to which it is engaged.

Like letters indicate like parts in the sev eral views. I

A is a pan provided on its underside with a central opening. Rigidly secured to the pan and filling said opening is a nut, B, internally screwthreaded.

O is a cock having a hollow screw-threaded stem opening into the pan. The pan is open at the top.

D is a perforated concavoconvex plate. This plate is provided on its outer edge with two circumferential flanges, E E, the flange E extending upward. The plate aforesaid rests on the top rim of the pan, and it is socured thereto by means of the flange E. Said plate is provided with a large central opening, G, and a series of smaller openings, 9. H is a pot for plants. This pot rests upon the plate D.

I is a bracket pivoted to a plate, J, said plate being secured to a wall, K. "The outer end of the bracket is screw-threaded, as at L, to engage the internal screw-threads on the nut 13, whereby the device is firmly secured to the bracket.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States- A potted-plantsupport consisting ofthe pan A, having the screw-nut B secured in the bottom thereot',a bracket having a screw-threaded outer end, said outer end being in engagement with the screw-nut aforesaid, and the cock Gin thesideofthepamincombination with theplate D, provided with an upwardly and. a down wardly extending flange, as specified, said plate being perforated, substantially as described, and for the purposes set forth.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

FREDRIOK S. FAHNESTOOK.

\Vitnesses:

WILLIAM E. SEAPOR'I, T. E. BULsoN. 

